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Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa
Na, once ml inference and training chips are purpose built it’ll be built into devices. AI models are the mainframes of today
They’re already trying this, sort of.
theverge.com/…/amazon-echo-show-8-photos-edition-…
They know charging for total access will cause a riot, so instead they’re enshitifying the whole experience and holding access to the current non-shit experience hostage with monthly fees.
I think at this point with so many tech giants introducing ads to their services and increasing subscription prices, I think we can expect some kind of subscription fee to access assistants with the AI/LLM capability. It would make sense to offer a ‘basic’ version of these services for free since people have already invested in the hardware, but wouldn’t be surprised if these companies suddenly block us from using the smart functionality suddenly unless you pay.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The emerging generation of “superhuman” AI models are so expensive to run that Amazon might charge you to use its Alexa assistant one day.
In an interview with Bloomberg, outgoing Amazon executive Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon could start charging a subscription fee for Alexa, and pointed to the cost of training and running generative artificial intelligence models for the smart speaker’s new AI features as the reason why.
Limp said that the company had not discussed what price it would charge for the subscription, adding that “the Alexa you know and love today is going to remain free” but that a future subscription-based version is “not years away.”
Generative AI models require huge amounts of computing power, with analysts estimating that OpenAI’s ChatGPT costs $700,000 a day or more to run.
Limp, Amazon’s senior VP of devices and services, announced he would step down from his role at the company after 13 years a month before the launch of the new products.
Insider’s Ashley Stewart reported that former Microsoft exec Panos Panay is expected to replace Limp.
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Dave Limp 💀
Let’s see if they will make real money with their AI, now.
im actually surprised companies havent tried to charge for voice assistants already considering pretty much everything you say to them gets sent to some service somewhere
Yeah… The moment they do that is the moment I turn off and disconnect every smart speaker I own, take them to the electronics recycling place, and start building out an open-source smart home setup.
I use commercial smart speakers because they’re easy and cheap. The moment they stop being one or the other is the moment they stop being in my home.
and start building out an open-source smart home setup.
Why are you waiting? Home Assistant is here now and it works pretty damn well for running a smart home.
At this point all Alexa is / does is act as a voice enabler for my HA setup and even that will be going away soon. They’re working hard to have a localized VA of their own.
It’s actually usable NOW it just doesn’t have “Wake Word” support quite yet.
I shut mine off a while back when I was sure they were advertising stuff based on things we were talking about in the same room. We were discussing moving the chairs out of the office and the next time we went to play music she wanted to sell us new ones.
It might be a total coincidence but screw that.
They could be handing those out for free and they’d still rot on the shelves. People just don’t know what to do with them and I am not certain Amazon does.
Charge for them? That’s meta verse idea quality.
They were pretty much were giving away google home minis away in Canada and I still decided against it. See them at thrift stores all the time.
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I no longer use mine for much but to control one light with an illogical switch placement. I could pretty much replace her with The Clapper™️
sentinelthesalty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Rip Bozo, no one will sub for your knock off siri. Aside from a certain cub set of consoomer cattle.
satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love when satire.